I've been waiting for ages for the forum to come back up to refer to some previous threads on this very subject. Unfortunately, for the moment at least, they are all gone. From what I remember from these earlier posts, many card splitters suffer from momentary pixelation and/or loss of sound. My splitter is a Micro-Link with two client cards. It does suffer from occasional pixelation, sometimes hardly at all, and other times it is a little annoying. Some say that pixelation is worse if both decoders are tuned to a channel on the same transponder. The splitter I have is happy to accept an IR2 card or whitey. It updates without a hitch. I haven't got an N D S card to try out, but I don't think that it would work.
Then there are the genuine Cardsplitters. Cardsplitter is a registered trademark of a firm in the UK. They make both wired and unwired splitters, although they are fairly expensive. They run a forum relating to their hardware at and it's possible to pick up some useful tips from this site. One of the issues at the moment is using an Epsilon card with a Cardsplitter. The admin at the forum says this is not possible, although he is working on it. I don't know whether Mad Cow's Epsilon splitter will actually work with an Epsilon card or not, and whether it pixelates or not.
Wireless card splitters sound ideal as the slave doesn't need a separate power supply and no cabling. However I have read several times that the cheaper wireless splitters aren't effective over more than 15m, which is not very far in a large or double story home. More expensive versions are available on the net from the US. They claim to have a coverage of at least half a kilometre, but cost around US$400.
A mate of mine is using GreyWolf with a whitey and getting very good results. Sid's program will not update a whitey, so you would have to do it manually. I prefer a card splitter because I don't have to run a computer all the time or have a Dream Box at either end. The splitters are tiny, don't need rebooting and can be stuck away behind the decoder.
If anyone can fill in the gaps in my knowledge relating to pixelation or the coverage of a wireless splitter then this would be very helpful.
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